Mozart's childhood violin heads to China

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Mozart's childhood violin heads to China

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PTI

Updated: Apr 7, 2018, 11:32 IST

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The violin that Mozart used as a child left today for a state visit by Austrian government members to China, where a seven-year-old girl will play it for President Xi Jinping.

"She will do it quite brilliantly, I am sure," Van der Bellen said reporters before the 200-strong delegation of politicians, business people and others departed.

"#Music is a common language understood and appreciated the world over," he added on Twitter alongside a photo of the grinning seven-year-old clutching the instrument and wearing traditional Austrian garb.

The violin is believed to have been made in the 1740s and until 1820 belonged to Mozarts sister Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl, also a child prodigy.

Since 1896 it has been in the collection of a foundation in Salzburg, and is normally on display at the museum in the house where the composer was born.

Pfoess will perform at Sunday's state banquet attended by Xi and Van der Bellen, playing pieces by, unsurprisingly, Mozart but also other Austrian and Chinese composers.

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